Re: Buying Alphas (was Re: blinding age)

Loic Prylli (Loic.Prylli@ens-lyon.fr)
Wed, 8 Apr 1998 20:28:24 +0200 (MET DST)

Wes Bauske writes:
>
> >From what I've seen of Debian, they're using RH systems to
> build their SW, at least initially since they aren't really ready
> to release something. Though it looks like they are getting
> closer, maybe by June. When they have a release available, I
> plan on seeing how they've done.

I would say Debian is much more advanced that what you imply.

Only installation disks need still a bit of work, but I installed
Debian/Alpha in november using only Debian stuff without needing
anything from Redhat.

The system runs in production mode since December, and from what I
read on the axp-list, Debian/Alpha seems too works better than
Redhat5.0 at least in a number of areas (the developement system,
particularly g77, g++, and also NIS): redhat seems to have some
trouble for this kind of thing, it works perfectly for us.

Of course it may be possible that Debian/Alpha has problem of its
own, but for us it works perfectly and has all software packages we
need (perhaps already much more than redhat).

Loic